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NOTICE: In early 2018, after a twelve-year run, Catholic Comments has ceased producing new episodes. The Catholic Comments web site site will remain active for at least one year. All episodes have also been archived here in the CDR by the Creighton University Libraries.

Catholic Comments was an audio program dedicated to the discussion of the Contemporary Catholic Church from an Ignatian perspective. It was hosted by Dr. John J. O’Keefe and Dr. Wendy M. Wright, both members of the theology faculty at Creighton University, a Jesuit, Catholic University in Omaha, Nebraska.

The Center for Catholic Thought at Creighton University was created in 2009. The Center serves students, faculty, staff, and the local Catholic community through a series of programs designed to explore and promote the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.

The Center also produced an annual series of short lectures called the “IgniteTalks.” This series was created in 2015 at to honor the memory of Rev. William Harmless, S.J. We understand these as an exercise in public theology because they are designed to bring the riches of the Jesuit Catholic heritage to a wider audience. These talks were made possible by generous gifts from the Creighton Jesuit Community, an anonymous donor and with the full support of Creighton’s College of Arts and Sciences.

EXCERPT|How is Christianity like music? If that's too bland for you, how about an edgier version of the question, why has our understanding of Christian truth, Christian life, Christian meaning, and its effects on everyday ...

EXCERPT|If you don't tell your own story, someone else will. Telling your story is an act of claiming your faith, of framing it and owning it. Think about Martin Luther King, who shared his faith as part of his story he ...

EXCERPT|[William Harmless, S.J.] says mysticism could be union in love of God and ourselves. Or it could be Ronner's definition, experience of God that emerges from the heart of our existence, or it could be a knowledge ...

EXCERPT|But questions, poetry, friendship: can they be woven with these themes of being innovative, stimulating, theological, seeking a unity of mind, heart, and soul? And to do so, I would like to do this with some images...

EXCERPT|This is something that I've been trying to do in organizing international networks of entrepreneurs and activists working to build an online economy, where the online platforms, the Facebooks, the Ubers, are owned ...

EXCERPT|Where do we stand on borders and walls? Every year I guide two groups to visit two different borders. One of those borders is between the Dominican Republic in Haiti and the other is between the United States and ...

EXCERPT|I think when you say something like I stopped believing in the doctrines, what you're looking at is a spectacular theological failure that is on us. I am taking it on as my guilt and shame and I am begging for your ...

EXCERPT|When thinking about the roles of walls in Egyptian monasticism, I decided to start with a straightforward and yet fundamental point about the roles of walls in religious spaces all together. That they mark out a ...

EXCERPT|The only way to change the world is to live as if God has already changed the world, because God has, so instead of doing everything or doing nothing it's the grace to do one thing and that one thing then frees us ...

EXCERPT|This is not a talk about oppression. However, this is a story of three remarkable women: Hadewijch, Catherine of Siena, and Julian of Norwich, who each found their own ways of transcending the walls, both metaphorical ...

EXCERPT|So looking to jazz for me was a provocation to the way I study religion. I've also learned that the conceptual tangles that I've tried to present here capture how for the musicians themselves, spirituality or ...

EXCERPT|Richard McBrien is a prolific Catholic theologian and among the things as he's written on has been spirituality and he describes a spirituality as an experience of God that shapes our consciousness and our daily ...

Rev. Thomas Massaro, S.J. discusses the relationship between the Eucharist and social justice.|Massaro is the dean of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley California.|This podcast originally ...